Middletown election sees two newcomers win commission seats
Miss Mary Lord won a second term on the Middletown City Commission while newcomers Dudley Inwood and Ray Brown also secured seats. Robert Cordray led the Board of Education ticket with a second term. newcomers Mrs. Carol Turrell and Howard Schueller joined him as winners. Incumbent Virgil Clark lost. Voter turnout reached 11,319, about 66 percent.
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Max Summers
Middletown
Howard Schueller
Armco Steel Corp
Virgil Clark
Commission
School Board
Miss Lord
Inwood
Brown
William Denham
Joe Lewis
Miss Lord Wins City Commission Victory In Hamilton Election
Lord led the City Commission race with 6049 votes followed by Inwood 4850 and Brown 4314. Gividen placed fourth with 4139 and others trailed. In the school board contest Cordray topped with 7600 votes, Turrell 6102, Schueller 6003, Harris 5683, Robbins 3123, and Stitt 2394.
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Hamilton
Miss Lord
Inwood
Joe Gividen
Lemon Township Board of Education
Brown
Clark
James D. Lamphier
James Holloman
Cordray
WPFB
Lemon Townshp
Fmnall
Warren County
Middletown
Turrell
Schueller
Robbins
David Stitt
Negroes Score Historic Firsts In Tuesday’s Elections
Negroes won a range of offices including Cleveland mayor Carl B. Stokes the first Black chief executive of the city. Richard G. Hatcher won Gary Indiana mayor by 1495 votes. Dr. W Ferguson Reid became Virginia’s first Black state legislator since Reconstruction. Robert Clark appears elected to Mississippi Holmes County state legislature. James M. Bradley won Charles City County sheriff. Jona W. Adkins won Charles City County clerk. William C. Ross Jr. elected Pittsfield Massachusetts school committee and James H. Wynn to the regional school board.
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Carl B. Stokes
Cleveland
Richard G. Hatcher
Gary
Ind
W. Ferguson Reid
Virginia
Mississippi
Robert Clark
Holmes County
James M. Bradley
Charles City
Richmond
Jona W. Adkins
William C. Ross Jr
Pittsfield
Mass
James H. Wynn
North Adams
Boston
Thomas Atkins
Harvard Law School
Clark
White wins Boston mayoral race with strong Negro support
Unofficial results show Kevin H White with 102551 votes to Louise Day Hicks 90122 in Boston. Negro wards 9 12 14 favored White 15352 to 3214, reflecting broader racial voting patterns amid debate over school desegregation and police salaries.
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Boston
Kevin H. White
Louise Day Hicks
Hicks
Massachusetts
Ohioans Die In Vietnam
The Defense Department reports three Ohio servicemen died in Vietnam. Marine Lance Cpl. Davis A. Jones of Wellington killed in action. Army S Sgt. Richard E. Wade of Dayton and Marine Sgt. Heber J. Miller of Rt. 1 Lancaster died of nonhostile causes.
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Defense Department
Marine Lance
Davis A. Jones
Wellington
Army S
Richard E. Wade
Dayton
Marine
Heber J. Miller
Rt. 1
Lancaster
Nunn Wins Kentucky Governor Race First GOP Gain Since 1940s
Louie B. Nunn, a country lawyer, becomes Kentucky’s first Republican governor in 24 years amid a Democratic legislature and lieutenant governor. He defeats Democrat Henry Ward by about 21 000 votes as precincts report. Nunn promises change at Frankfort and opposes national Vietnam policy. Ward criticizes Nunn as divisive. Nunn campaigns on state issues and local control.
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Nunn
Kentucky
Louisville
Louie B. Nunn
Johnson
Henry Ward
Ward
Edward T. Breathitt
South
Frankfort
Bert Combs
U.S. Supreme Court
Night of the first 1 percent voting machine tally in Butler County
The Hamilton Ohio Casualty center used IBM driven computers to tally ballots from 97 precincts as Middletown officials delivered counts. The process began after polls closed at 6 30 p m and concluded with full precinct tallies by 11 50 p m with a few faulty ballots replaced.
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Ohio Casualty Insurance Co
Hamilton
Butler County
Martin A. Coyle
Coyle
Polk School
J. Black Little
Middletown
Robert Walton
Middletown Board of Elections
Little
Election Board
Kelly Haddix
Ohio Casualty
Haddix
Madison Township
Weather forecast for Southwest Ohio and Miami Valley area
The forecast calls for fair skies and not so cool temperatures tonight with an expected low around 36 degrees. For Thursday expect increasing cloudiness and warmer air across the region.
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Ohio
Miami Valley
Chuckle Said a Man's Wife About a Checkbook
A humorous witticism is cited: a wife quips that once she starts a checkbook she cannot stop until it is finished. The line reflects playful domestic banter about finances and spending.
San Francisco Rejects Vietnam Peace Proposition
San Francisco voters rejected a call for an immediate cease-fire and U S withdrawal from Vietnam by a final tally of 132 406 against and 76 632 in favor across all 1341 precincts. Mayor-elect Joseph Alioto framed the result as not a victory for hawks, urging negotiated peace and American aid thereafter. Cambridge and Dearborn also weighed similar peace questions with uncertain outcomes.
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San Francisco
U.S
Vietnam
Joseph Alioto
United States
Alioto
Cambridge
Mass
Dearborn Mich
New York
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